Location

One day. One night.

WearableTech LA, curated by industry
experts come to Los Angeles this summer.
With a full day of 20 dynamic keynotes,
cutting-edge technologies, investment
opportunities, and 50 speakers,
WearableTech LA is the wearable event of
the year in Los Angeles.

Great speakers

Pioneers, thinkers and investors from
entertainment, health, and IoT will join us to
discuss how wearables are evolving and
becoming an integral part of our life

July 17th 2014

Great speakers and topics

Ariel is the co-founder and CEO of InteraXon, creators of Muse: the brain sensing headband. Ariel studied at the University of Toronto and did research into hippocampal neurogenesis at Toronto’s esteemed Krembil Neuroscience Centre. No mere neuroscience nerd, however, Ariel also is a psychotherapist, a fashion designer whose clothing opened Toronto Fashion Week in 2003, and has had her work displayed at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Ariel’s uncommon combination of science and art is integral to the design of every aspect of Muse and to InteraXon’s unique approach to brain sensing technology, making it a vital part of everyday life.

Edward Tang

Head of Global Marketing, Avegant

Edward Tang (Founder) received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan. In addition to being a student, Mr. Tang spent over ten years working for the university as a senior process engineer. There he helped develop a new electron beam lithography program and fabricated devices for Micro-Electrical-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) lab courses. Following graduation, Mr. Tang started Tang Engineering Consulting LLC, a consulting and design firm for the MEMS community in Ann Arbor. As CEO and President, he provided micro and nanofabrication design, simulation and fabrication services to multiple Fortune 500 companies, start-ups and universities, totaling over $1M in research and development. Currently, Mr. Tang oversees the strategic direction of Avegant in addition to driving business development and fundraising activities. He holds over 20 issued and pending patents worldwide and continues to hold a faculty position at the University of Michigan as a visiting scholar.

Ben Bateman

Community Manager for Hardware, Design, and Technology at Indiegogo

Ben Bateman is the Community Manager for Hardware, Design, and Technology at Indiegogo, where he focuses on developing strategies and tactics to help campaigns more effectively raise funds, and has worked with some of Indiegogo's largest campaigns including the Ubuntu Edge, Canary, Scanadu Scout, and many more.

Takuro Yoshida

CEO of Logbar Inc

Takuro Yoshida is CEO of Logbar Inc, making a wearable input device Ring.
Born in 1985 in Hokkaido, he took a leap of faith and attended high school in Chicago. The next two years he decided to spend in Silicon Valley, learning the tricks of the technology trade. In 2006, he helped erect an apartment hotel infrastructure in New York.
Upon returning to Japan, he constructed and operated several EC websites, and began developing applications for the iPhone / Android platforms, as well as producing various web-based services.
In 2013, he opened Logbar, or, “A Social Bar to Connect Others Casually with your iPad” in Shibuya, and set his eyes on London for the 2nd branch. Currently, he is researching analytical programs for leap motion, and developing a revolutionary wearable device he likes to call the “Ring”.

David Garver

VP of Emerging Devices, AT&T Mobility

David Garver is Area Vice President of Emerging Devices at AT&T Mobility and leads a team of business development professionals on the search for breakthrough wearable devices. With the mission to drive innovation in bringing wireless connectivity to new devices and applications, David focuses on identifying, establishing, launching and maintaining strategic partnerships with a host of existing and emerging Bluetooth and cellular connected consumer product companies.
David’s career with AT&T spans 18 years in various leadership roles in local and national marketing, youth and Hispanic marketing, sponsorships, business development for AT&T Mobility’s music and entertainment services as well as business development for AT&T U-verse TV.

Ed Cho

Ed Cho, Internet of Things Marketing Manager-Cisco

Ed Cho is responsible for leading the design and launch of Cisco's new Internet of Things campaign in the U.S. With it's focus on connecting the unconnected, Cisco provides the foundation that will allow the Internet of Things to potentially transform nearly every industry and change the way we live and work, locally and globally. Prior to Cisco, Ed carries a diversity of experiences in the entertainment/media, technology and healthcare sectors having worked at companies such as William Morris Endeavor, Disney and Ooyala. He has completed his MBA at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and holds degrees from the University of Michigan

Jonathan is co-founder/CEO of Spire and a serial entrepreneur who works across technology, business and culture. He’s built and sold advanced technologies in software and hardware such as the first internet connected flashcard software, a global VoIP language learning platform and a big-data advertising platform in China. A professionally trained actor he also started and grew the largest improv comedy group in Asia (Beijing Improv).

Has built his career in the US and France. Well versed in international activities having managed “Asia-Centric” B to B businesses. He has worked for Invensys, HP, and Thomson. Previously he directed component businesses for Technicolor where he successfully set up and ran an optical component business from scratch. Preceding the optical activity, he ran an RF component business two R&D centers (Singapore and Germany), manufacturing in Indonesia (20mpcs/yr), a worldwide sales force and agent network. He holds a BSEE degree from University of Illinois and has studied Operations Management at the ESCP the oldest business school in Europe.
OPTINVENT is the leading maker of the cutting edge see-through ORA smart glasses with patented technologies and extensive know-how in the field of retinal projection display products. The ORA is a true optical see-through digital eyewear platform that integrates Optinvent’s patented retinal display engine capable of supporting a multitude of hands free mobile computing applications with record setting performance, design, and form factor. The patented “Flip-Vu” feature is the world’s first dual position see-through display allowing a multitude of use modes for both industrial and consumer applications.
ORA-S®, Clear-Vu®, and Flip-Vu® are registered trademarks of Optinvent SA, for more information please visit: www.optinvent.com

Myriam Joire (tnkgrl) was born wearing combat boots and holding a keyboard; moments later she picked up a soldering iron. She's been stomping, typing and hacking ever since. After spending years being a code-monkey in the video game industry, she joined Engadget as Senior Mobile Editor and became In(ternet) famous. She’s been called a “personality” and a “pundit“, but mostly she’s a tomboy with a fondness for other queers, punks, nerds, and misbegotten social deviants. She now pimps watches as the Chief Evangelist for Pebble. She's based in San Francisco.

Eric Olson

Director Of Design, Karten Design

As Director of Design at product design and innovation consultancy Karten Design for 18 years, Eric has led major design and innovation programs for consumer and medical device clients, including Samsung, P&G, Boston Scientific, and CareFusion. Eric’s leadership and enthusiasm engenders a high level of creativity and design sophistication from all of Karten Design’s project teams. He blends his aesthetic sensibility, end user empathy, and strong awareness of market trends and business objectives to translate program requirements into compelling products with market appeal. Under Eric’s leadership, Karten Design’s products have won some of the industry’s top design awards, including IDEA Awards, the CES Innovations Awards, the Medical Design Excellence Awards, the Chicago-based GOOD Design Awards, and the iF Awards. Eric holds tandem design degrees from UCLA and Art Center College of Design.

Research activities in Victor Pikov’s laboratory at HMRI involve a development and animal testing of miniaturized implanted devices for interfacing with peripheral nerves to record from and modulate the activity of different organs, such as the bladder, bowel, ovary, and the eye. As a consultant to GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Dr. Pikov provides his expertise on rapidly evolving technology in the field of implantable neural interfaces and on existing physiological, engineering, and material science challenges in achieving wireless bidirectional communication with autonomic nerves. Of particular interest to the GSK is the sympathetic and parasympathetic innervation of the adrenal gland, urinary bladder, carotid body, and bronchial tree. Recording and modulation of the sympathetic and parasympathetic activity may provide a basis for novel non-pharmaceutical therapies for multiple chronic diseases, such as: diabetes, hypertension, bladder incontinence, arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, infertility, prostate cancer, and macular degeneration.

Dr. Joshua Windmiller is an internationally-recognized expert in printed biosensor technology. His Ph.D. research, funded by a Powell Foundation fellowship, focused on the development of printed biosensors, bioelectronics, and biofuel cells. He has published over 50 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and has eleven US patents issued or pending. Dr. Windmiller, a Gordon Fellow and NIH SHIFT awardee, is the recipient of the Printed Electronics USA 2010 Academic R&D award for his developments in textile-based printed bioelectronics. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Laboratory for NanoBioElectronics at UCSD in 2013, where he was supported by the von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and led a commercialization grant sponsored by the DOE. He currently serves as the CEO of Electrozyme, a startup that he co-founded devoted to the development of novel printed biosensors and biofuel cells for application in the personal wellness and healthcare domains.

Syuzi Pakhchyan is a fashion technologist and author with a passion for crafting products and experiences for next generation wearable technologies. After receiving her MFA from the Art Center College of Design, she authored "Fashioning Technology" the first DIY book on interactive fashion, and began a design and innovation consulting studio.
Currently she works as a consultant where her focus is to fashion wearables that are truly wearable and distinctly desirable. Syuzi is also Art Center College of Design’s Technologist in Residence where she is working to produce events and happenings that encourage conversations around the future of wearable technology. As a leading expert in her field, she chronicles the constantly evolving developments in wearable technology on her blog, fashioningtech.com.
Syuzi has been sharing her insight and vision for wearable technology at leading industry conferences including SXSW, Wearable Tech Expo, and the Augmented World Expo.
Her work has also been exhibited at various events including V & A Museum (London), Eyebeam, A & D Museum (Los Angeles), the Fashion Future Event, Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts, South by Southwest, Maker Faire and Emerging Technologies Conference.

As Chief Executive Officer of NeuroSky, Stanley Yang leads the strategic vision and management of the company. NeuroSky is at the forefront of body and mind monitoring analysis and its technologies are at the core of innovative, wearable health and wellness consumer products. NeuroSky makes it possible for millions of consumers to capture and quantify critical health and wellness data so that they can effectively manage their mind and body health. NeuroSky delivers uniquely adaptable chips and algorithms that offer ECG multi-function cardio monitoring, and quantitative and interpretive algorithms in a powerful integrated, adaptable and extensible solution.

Davide Vigano is cofounder and CEO of Heapsylon, based in Redmond (WA). The company’s vision is "The Garment is The Computer.": After PC’s, smartphones and tablets, smart clothing will fuel the next wave of innovation in wearable computing. Heapsylon delivered the Sensoria Developer Kit to over forty industry partners and develops smart garments under the Sensoria brand which includes heart rate monitoring t-shirts, sports bras and socks that can detect and communicate data related to activity, pronation, foot landing technique and more. Former partner level Microsoft Executive with over 25 years of sales, marketing and product management experience, in 1987 joined the MacWorks, MacOffice 1.0 teams at Microsoft and more recently served as General Manager of the Health Solutions Group where he lead marketing and product strategy for both HealthVault and the Amalga product line.
Vigano holds a European degree in Economics from University of Bergamo in Italy and conducted post graduate studies at University of Washington and Kellogg School of Management.

Mark Stephen Meadows is the founder, CSO and CCO, of Geppetto Avatars, Inc., which builds conversational characters for education, entertainment, medical, and robotics applications. He is also the author of "We, Robot,” and other books that examine media, technology, and their cultural impact. Helping to build the third dot-com webserver (well.com, in 1993) Mark went on to found his first company, Construct, in 1995. The company was sold in 1998. In the following years Mark worked at Xerox-PARC, Stanford Research Institute, and the Waag (among others), and also traveled extensively lecturing on this work. In 2012, after nearly a decade's experience in Natural Language Processing, character design, real-time 3D,
and interactive narrative, Mark founded Geppetto Avatars. The company vision includes combining education, entertainment, and healthcare to build emotionally intelligent natural language interfaces for both hardware and software robots.

KENNETH HERTZ

Senior Partner, Hertz Lichtenstein & Young LLP

Ken is Senior Partner at Hertz Lichtenstein & Young LLP, and specializes in maximizing opportunities in a disruptive business climate. He is a trusted strategic advisor and dealmaker with more than two decades of experience representing entertainment, fashion, sports, consumer products, media and technology companies and individuals.
His clients include a broad array of superstar recording artists and celebrities. Ken also represents best-selling authors, globally recognized speakers, C suite executives and conferences and events.
Ken is also the Founding Principal in memBrain llc, an entertainment marketing and strategy consulting firm. memBrain consults a number of firms engaged in businesses operating in the entertainment content, fashion, technology and marketing industries including global brand clients such as Coty, Hasbro, Intel, McDonald’s, MillerCoors, Fossil and Keds.
Prior to joining Hertz Lichtenstein & Young LLP, Ken was in charge of music business and legal affairs for The Walt Disney Company.

Monisha Perkash is CEO & Co-founder at LUMO BodyTech, makers of the Lumo Lift and Lumo Back posture and activity trackers. She and her team are shaking up the wearable tech space with innovative designs to help people look and feel great. Monisha previously served as CEO and Co-Founder of TuitionCoach (acquired by SimpleTuition in 2009), where she oversaw the financing, launch, and general management of the start-up. After the acquisition, she stayed on with SimpleTuition as VP Products. Monisha has an MBA from Stanford and a BA from Yale.

Paul Crandell

VP of Marketing, GoPro

Paul Crandell is the VP of Marketing for GoPro where he has built and led a team of incredibly talented marketing professionals to help create one of the most powerful brands in the world. He specializes in a myriad of marketing sectors that include brand marketing, advertising, media production, lifestyle marketing, online marketing, and sports marketing. Previously, Paul worked as the Director of Sports Marketing for Red Bull and worked closely with the Austrian headquarter team to build the brand in the US, where they took the company from $5 million to $2 billion in nine years. He also helped build the brand for ICON Aircraft, one of the most popular new aircrafts coming to the market, where he was the Vice President of Marketing. Although he may be a brand guru, he also enjoys living an active lifestyle and participating in action sports. In his early days, Paul sold artwork out of his car for 3 years so he could ski and mountain bike around the country. In between mountain biking and skiing, Paul produced action and adventure sports events for TV. Paul Crandell’s marketing leadership has lead GoPro to produce some of the best short-form content which inspires others to self-capture immersive and engaging footage.

Dick Fosbury was born in Portland, Oregon in 1947. As a high schooler in Medford, Oregon he revolutionized the high jump when he developed a new technique that quickly became known as "the Fosbury Flop." Great things were in store for him.
The Flop was developed during Dick’s high school years, from 1963 to 1965 when he won the National Junior Champ meet. It was perfected at Oregon State University under Coach Berny Wagner. Fosbury first cleared 7' during the 1968 indoor season and became National Champion at the NCAAs (National Collegiate Athletic Association) in 1968 and 1969. He won the Gold Medal at the Mexico City Olympic Games by clearing 7' 4 1/4", breaking Olympic and American records.
Fosbury made his record jump in Mexico City on his third attempt and was ranked #1 in the world following his 1968 victory. He turned professional in 1973 and joined the International Track Association (ITA). The Fosbury Flop has become the universal technique used by elite high jumpers globally.
Dick was elected to the USA Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1981, and then to the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1992. He was inducted into the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame in 2010, and has received numerous awards from sports and innovation organizations around the world.
Mr Fosbury is the past President and currently serves on the Executive Committee of the World Olympians Association. He is Vice President of the United States Olympians Association.
He is a retired licensed civil engineer and land surveyor who built a civil engineering firm in Ketchum, Idaho, Galena Engineering Inc. where he has resided since 1977. He currently serves as Honorary Chairman of the Simplot Games, the largest high school level indoor track meet in the USA. Dick continues to coach young athletes at Dick Fosbury Track Camps and gives clinics around the world to coaches and athletes.
Today, the USA Olympic Hall of Famer continues to travel the world inspiring young athletes and corporate partners while promoting the sport of Track & Field. In addition, Dick recently formally announced he intends to run for a seat in the Idaho Legislature Second District 26 this November, 2014.

Erick Miller

Founder & CEO, Epiphany Eyewear

Erick has over a decade of professional experience altering reality using 3D computer graphics and photo-realistic visual effects at companies such as Disney, Digital Domain and Sony. He’s written many complex 3D software systems as a Technical Director, authored a number of books on 3D graphics and taught numerous Master Classes on Hyper-Reality. Miller is also a frequent speaker,

is published by the ACM, and has managed multimillion dollar software projects.

Miller has a MBA from UCLA, while also studying abroad at the National University of Singapore for an additional Masters degree, and an undergrad in computer graphics (3D Animation). He has served on several review boards, including Autodesk’s CTO council and the ACM’s unified jury where he’s been a Siggraph Session Chair. He has led 3d technical direction on Clio nominated digital effects and was recently shortlisted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for a Sci-Tech Academy Award. Erick was also recently honored by representing Vergence Labs at the very prestigious, first ever TEDxStanford 2012 event.

Andy Grignon

CEO, Quake Labs

Andy Grignon has made a career out of creating and shipping highly visible consumer products. He started out at Apple in the Advanced Technology Group developing QuickTime Conferencing and QuickTime Streaming technologies. At Apple, he built iChat AV and the iSight camera, as well as Dashboard for MacOS. He went on to join the small, ragtag group charged with creating the iPhone, then left for Palm to co-invent webOS as VP of Applications and Platforms. He is currently a founder and CEO of Quake Labs, which is building a new platform called Eightly which enables regular people to create and publish an entirely new kind of content for mobile devices.

Jesse is chief medical officer at OMsignal. His passion for wearables started when he saw the potential to measure orthopaedic patient outcomes with wrist-based wearables, a program he is starting at the University of Toronto. Soon after that moment he became one of OMsignal’s first testers, wearing the shirt to measure stress during trauma surgery. Now he is on the inside, shaping how OMsignal will define performance and fitness for users. Jesse is an adjunct instructor at UCSF and an orthopaedic trauma surgeon in San Jose. He also has fellowship training in sports medicine from the University of Toronto. He completed his MBA at the Richard Ivey School of Business.

Nadeem is a serial entrepreneur and a passionate, savvy angel investor. Over the last decade he has led Zynik Capital into new industries like Healthcare, Entertainment and Social Media. . Nadeem has acted as a Director of Zynik Capital Corp. and managed turnarounds, liquidations and financings ranging from 1mil to 130mil+ in deal transactions. As Founder / Chief Alliance Officer of Basis, Nadeem was a tireless champion for making wellness more engaging for many years. . Basis Science was recently acquired by Intel Corp. for over $100 Million, a great strategic acquisition for the tech giant. As an early believer in the future of connected sensors. As a wellness champion, Nadeem is the visionary behind BioBeats, Inc. and their concentration on heart data. He was recently inducted into StartupHealth's inaugural class of Healthcare Transformers

Oliver Starr was the founder of MobileCrunch and the first employee at Techcrunch - He's currently Chief Evangelist for Pearltrees. A well known advocate for wolves and wild places, Oliver has over 20 years of hands on experience with wolves. His passion for mobile and love of nature combine in this talk that provokes us to think about wearables from a completely different perspective.

Julien worked in the mobile space for 10 years. Currently advising several wearable computing startups such as Plantiga, and GERO, he previously worked for Samsung where he shaped the strategy and built contextual experiences as well as services such as Samsung Hub, an iTunes type service and Samsung WatchON, a video aggregation engine, two services currently available on the Samsung Galaxy S4. He is the founder of Gizworld, a global wearable computing consultancy, and co-founder of Wearable Tech Israel, Israel's first major wearable computing event, taking place in May 2014. Julien has been quoted in leading publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Dow Jones, and BusinessWeek.

Quin Sandler is the CEO of Plantiga, an innovative smart shoe company Quin has been a serial entrepreneur for most of his life. While attending Capilano University in Vancouver, Canada, Quin started Keystone Learning, a tutoring and teaching company focused on a proprietary set of teaching techniques developed by Mr. Sandler. The company grew to 5 employees, and operated throughout the Lower Mainland of Vancouver, Canada. Later he founded the Principle Design Group (PDG), a successful branding and identity company, focused on businesses in arts and entertainment, amongst others. Quin has demonstrated experience in project management, business and product development, operations, marketing and sales, as well as web development.

Charles Michael Yim is a serial and visionary entrepreneur from Silicon Valley, that is passionate about inventing and building innovative products that consistently delight customers. He is a young veteran in the startup world with a proven track record of success. Charles is best known for his appearance on ABC's hit show Shark Tank where he convinced all 5 Sharks to invest $1M together in Breathometer. Being the Founder and CEO of Breathometer, Charles is responsible for overall direction and product strategy. Most recently, Charles was Founder and CEO of Chatterfly from inception, to acquisition by Plum District, a Kleiner Perkins company. Under Charles' leadership and vision, Chatterfly was able to become one of the most influential neighborhood reward platforms in the mobile space starting from the ground floor. Prior to Chatterfly, Charles was the Founder of ProBuddy, where he teamed up with a senior engineer at Facebook to develop a local service provider recommendation engine. Prior to that, Charles played an integral role in business development at Fortify Software, later acquired by HP.
Before entering the software industry, Charles was heavily involved in a leadership role at Cintas Corporation as a Regional Six Sigma, where he was responsible for stream-lining business processes, business analytics, M&A and QA for the entire West Coast Operation within the Emerging Businesses Sector.
Charles has appeared on ABC's hit show Shark Tank and has been interviewed by TechCrunch Live, USA Today, MSNBC, Fox Business News, Wall Street Journal and prolific blogger Robert Scoble. Charles is the Managing Director of cMy Ventures, serves on the Board of Directors for FADD and Advisory Board of Survcast and K Hotels. Charles has authored multiple patents in embedded systems and is currently writing his first book. Charles graduated with a B.S. in Business Economics from UC Riverside and from Stanford Graduate School of Business in the Executive Program.

Mikko is an Executive with Clothing+ - a developer and manufacturer of comfortable wearable sensor solutions for leading brands in the sports and medical segments. In 1998, Clothing+ created the world’s first heart rate sensing shirt and in 2002 we started mass-producing the world’s first textile heart rate sensor strap.

Stacey Burr is a leader in the field of wearable sensing technology. Following a career at DuPont, she founded and served as CEO of Textronics Inc, a pioneer in electro-textiles. Textronics lead the commercialization of e-textiles with the first wearable sensor garments for fitness and health. In late 2008 she successfully sold the Company to adidas and currently serves as Vice President, adidas Wearable Sports Electronics.
Her team at adidas subsequently developed and launched the miCoach® Elite athlete monitoring system in 2013. Major League Soccer, in the United States, adopted the miCoach Elite system across the entire league, making MLS the first professional Smart League.
Ms. Burr has a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering and an M.B.A, with a marketing and operations emphasis, from Purdue University. She is the co-inventor of 16 patented materials and process technology innovations. In addition to her position with adidas, she also stays active in the venture start-up community and mentors other start-ups.

Stuart Brazell

TV Host/Producer

TV Host/Producer, Reality TV Junkie, Music + Movie Maniac, Pop Culture Princess,
Dancing Queen, Co-Creator of@dirtyandthirty and all around COOL CHICK!
Entertainment Professional and Multimedia Host and Producer with experience both behind and in front of the camera. Extremely experienced with social media and creating/hosting branded digital and broadcast content and programming.

Mar Yvette

Lifestyle Reporter, Fox 11, Good Day LA

Mar Yvette is a TV host, lifestyle reporter and writer best known for her fun, high-energy style.
You can see her weekdays on FOX 11 and Thursday mornings on "Good Day LA" where she hosts the "Marpop Weekend Roundup" featuring her latest food finds, live music, fashion, sports and fitness.
Mar is a contributing reporter for Fox News Latino and co-hosts the popular “Love It, Buy It!" segment on E! News with Giuliana Rancic, showcasing limited-time-only discounts on designer fashions, accessories and products.
In addition to broadcast, Mar's experience encompasses digital and print platforms. She was the senior editor of Citysearch, a national online city guide and directory, with more than 10 million unique monthly visitors, as well as the associate editor of Clear, an international luxury fashion & design magazine.

Jessica Naziri

Tech Expert & Online Media Personality, CNN/CNBC/LA Times

Jessica Naziri is a tech expert, online media personality and accomplished journalist covering the intersection between technology and culture. She is a self-proclaimed "chic geek," who turned her passion into a career, working as an technology reporter. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, NPR, CNN, Yahoo!, Business Insider, the Washington Post and CNBC, among other publications.
You can follow her on Twitter @jessicanaziri

Jon Healey

Editor, LA Times

Jon Healey is a member of the editorial board at the Los Angeles Times, which means he is one of a nameless, faceless group writing screeds that, technically speaking, reflect the views of the publisher (whoever that happens to be at the time). His main contributions to the editorial page are pieces about intellectual property, technology, the economy, regulation, and general business issues. He also writes for two of The Times’ blogs, Tech Now (infrequently) and Opinion L.A. (all too often). Prior to his joining the editorial board, Healey covered technology news for The Times, the San Jose Mercury News and various other publications.

Tshaka Armstrong

News Tech Ninja, KTTV Fox 11 News

Tshaka Armstrong is FOX 11's resident nerd and geek (he vehemently says there's a difference). In 2012 he took on a role in front of the camera as a Reporter talking about technology and helping FOX 11 Viewers understand how to be safer, smarter users of the Internet and their "gadgets." Prior to that he spent the last 15 years behind the camera editing and producing news stories, specials and investigative reports for KCOP13 and Fox11. Tshaka is also active in the community as the co-founder and President of the non-profit organization, Digital Shepherds whose mission is to teach digital literacy to parents, children and educators and help equip children with the computer science education necessary to be competitive today and in the future.

Chris Gore

Comedian, G4TV’s Attack of the Show

Chris Gore is a comedian and writer who was a regular on G4TV's Attack of the Show. He is also the founder of Film Threat, the author of several movie books including the Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide, writer/producer of the feature comedy My Big Fat Independent Movie and his podcast is PodCRASH with That Chris Gore. Chris also co-hosts Geektime weekly on SiriusXM's Howard 101.
Chris' debut comedy album is titled "Celebrities Poop."

KENNETH HERTZ

Senior Partner, Hertz Lichtenstein & Young LLP

Ken is Senior Partner at Hertz Lichtenstein & Young LLP, and specializes in maximizing opportunities in a disruptive business climate. He is a trusted strategic advisor and dealmaker with more than two decades of experience representing entertainment, fashion, sports, consumer products, media and technology companies and individuals.
His clients include a broad array of superstar recording artists and celebrities. Ken also represents best-selling authors, globally recognized speakers, C suite executives and conferences and events.
Ken is also the Founding Principal in memBrain llc, an entertainment marketing and strategy consulting firm. memBrain consults a number of firms engaged in businesses operating in the entertainment content, fashion, technology and marketing industries including global brand clients such as Coty, Hasbro, Intel, McDonald’s, MillerCoors, Fossil and Keds.
Prior to joining Hertz Lichtenstein & Young LLP, Ken was in charge of music business and legal affairs for The Walt Disney Company.

Originally from the UK and now based in San Francisco and London, Chris heads the editorial team at SlashGear, a leading consumer technology site. Focusing particularly on smartphones, mobile computing, wearable technology, and the digital home, Chris brings his background in psychology to concentrate on the role of context in mobility and digital lifestyle

Julien worked in the mobile space for 10 years. Currently advising several wearable computing startups such as Plantiga, and GERO, he previously worked for Samsung where he shaped the strategy and built contextual experiences as well as services such as Samsung Hub, an iTunes type service and Samsung WatchON, a video aggregation engine, two services currently available on the Samsung Galaxy S4. He is the founder of Gizworld, a global wearable computing consultancy, and co-founder of Wearable Tech Israel, Israel's first major wearable computing event, taking place in May 2014. Julien has been quoted in leading publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Dow Jones, and BusinessWeek.

A technology journalist for more than 30 years and an award-winning writer, Dan Rosenbaum is the editor of Wearable Tech Insider and president of the content marketing company Center Ring Media. Dan started as a reporter for United Press International, and has been the editor of many technology magazines and online properties, including Mobile Office, Computer Shopper, NetGuide, Time Digital, and Internet Shopper. In the Web’s early days, he ran 3Ships Communications, the first editorial agency devoted to new media. A pioneering blogger, Dan was one of the first editors to create a permanent online presence for a monthly print magazine. Dan has appeared on many television shows, including Good Morning America, CNBC, Extra, and FX’s morning show Breakfast Time. He was a frequent guest on CNN programs around the world and for several years had a weekly spot on CNNfn's Biz Buzz.

Meet the organizers

Wearable technology is not just a fad but rather something that’s become ubiquitous and defines us today. The vision of interweaving technology into the everyday life and make it a part of us is become a thriving movement. I’m thrilled to be a part of this movement that helps put Pasadena on the radar while shedding the light on innovation.

Reese Ramos – PR Strategy

Wearables will change our world. Star Trek got it right and now that future is here.

Erlend Wilhelmsen, Fabric

We are bringing together in one event the people who inspired wearables, the people who are building those wearables today, the people who will endorse those wearables and create a mass market, the people who will fund this space

Julien Blin, Gizworld.com

In 2014, wearable technology increasingly touches all aspects of our life; It helps us stay healthy, it entertains ourselves. We created Wearable Tech LA to show tomorrow’s world of Wearables today.

Loic Maestracci

Wearables are becoming an extension of human senses and capabilities. The era of augmented humans is here.